Bert Dumars' Blog

I am very excited to announce my newest report on marketing innovation just published Friday, November 15, 2013: "Build A Marketing Innovation Engine And Team To Power Growth " (subscription required or fee for non-Forrester clients). The latest report in my series on marketing innovation focuses specifically on the talent required to successfully innovate. It also delivers a lean process that unencumbers this talent from the bureaucracy that typically slows it down. Here is a brief report summary.

Top CMOs are partnering with their CIO counterparts to integrate new technologies into their customer engagement, commercial, and brand building efforts as consumers rapidly adopt new behaviors and expectations in the age of the customer. Companies like Comcast, Ford Motor, and Chick-fil-A have created more streamlined innovation processes to navigate internal bureaucracies and politics, ideate, develop, and launch new marketing efforts faster in order to keep up. This report will provide 1) a model for continuous evaluation and selection of cutting-edge marketing innovations, and 2) information about the leadership and talent capabilities you will need to execute on these programs.

In addition, the report also includes valuable insights from Aetna and Wells Fargo on how to develop marketing innovation programs that have an impact on the business. Here are some of the key takeaways: